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"output" only matters if your company is paid by "results" and isn't based on billable hours, otherwise ... "output" doesn't matter. Law firms would love every
by hmmSceptical 3y ago
"output" only matters if your company is paid by "results" and isn't based on billable hours, otherwise ... "output" doesn't matter.
Law firms would love every case to be solved in 2 hours if they still got the same $ value from a case that dragged on for 6 months.
- wmf 3y agoKeep moving those goalposts.
- hmmSceptical 3y ago> Goalposts You literally said "output" the most speculative / vague definition of "work" available. I appreciate programmers / "creatives" "output" is much harder to measure, but there are alot of jobs where "mouse moving", "words per second" is a very reliable indicator of "output".
- wizofaus 3y agoSuch as? And more importantly, is there the slightest evidence that putting such monitoring in place actually helps increase output?
- michaelmrose 3y agoAlmost no jobs are meaningfully measured in such a fashion because it penalizes thinking at the expense of spinning your wheels even when latter is far less or even negative in value if it wastes other employees time as well. It also fails to capture any relationship between input and output. If all you care about is butts in seats you can bill someone else for there productivity means nothing all you want is someone to take as long as possible to produce a level of output the client will pay for.
- candiddevmike 3y agoThis already happens. You really think places bill at cost?
- qwytw 3y agoTheir clients are not paying for lawyers to sit on their chairs and click their keyboards. Billable hours is still completed specific work (even though it might not lead anywhere and/or help winning the case/etc. directly)